1. Year Six Rowan
Welcome Meeting
Taking Pride and Aiming High

2. Aims of this meeting
To enable parents to meet some of the Year 6 staff.
To explain the main aims of the year.
To give suggestions for how you could support your child in their learning.

3. Year 6 Staff Teacher: Mrs Hardy Monday Teacher: Mrs Black
TA: Mrs Highgate
Support teacher (three times weekly): Mrs J. Smith

4. What are the aims of Year 6
To consolidate and build on prior knowledge
Using and applying their skills across the curriculum
Learn the Year 6 curriculum
Prepare children for secondary school

5. Attendance The key to academic success is EXCELLENT ATTENDANCE.
In order for your child to be successful at school we expect them to be here EVERY DAY unless they are ill.
As a school we have HIGH EXPECTATIONS of your child.
To maximise learning, attendance should be more than 96%.
HOLIDAYS are not to be taken during term time.
A RECORD of any holidays taken will be kept in your child’s file.
Any doctor, hospital APPOINTMENTS should be made for after school.
Taking Pride and Aiming High

6. Punctuality
Punctuality is VITAL. Pupils are expected to arrive in school between 8:45am-9:00am, however the nearer to 8:45am , the more learning we can achieve.
Pupils are marked as late if they arrive after 9:00am when the register closes.
Taking Pride and Aiming High

7. Curriculum Map AUTUMN 1 AUTUMN 2 SPRING 1 SPRING 2 SUMMER 1 SUMMER 2
AUTUMN 1
AUTUMN 2
SPRING 1
SPRING 2
SUMMER 1
SUMMER 2
BIG QUESTION
Bolivia or Britain?
What was life like for the Ancient Maya?
Who were the Ancient Greeks?
What did the Ancient Greeks do for us?
What would Phileas Fogg have learnt about the world?
TBC
HISTORY
Ancient Maya
Ancient Greeks – Life in Ancient Greece
Ancient Greeks – Legacy
GEOGRAPHY
Continent Project – South America (Bolivia)
Map Skills
Physical – climate, biomes, vegetation belt
Human – land use, economic activity
SCIENCE
Living Things and Habitats
Evolution and Inheritance
Animals, Including Humans
Light
Electricity
ENGLISH
Reports
Explanation
Narrative – Description
Narrative – Adventure
Recount
Poetry
‘Take One Book’
Persuasion
Discussion
Narrative - Mystery
Biographies
Grammar Revision
Debating Skills
‘Take One Poet’
Drama - Production
KEY TEXTS
‘A Christmas Carol’
Who Let the Gods Out?
‘Around the World in Eighty Days’
‘Holes’
MATHS
Place Value
Calculations
Properties of Shapes
Fractions
Position and Direction
Measures
Percentages
Ratio
Statistics
Algebra
Revision
Problem Solving
COMPUTING
Digital Content
Acceptable Behaviour
Programming – Scratch
Networks, Software, Data and Information- Spreadsheets
Programming – Logo
Networks, Software, Data and Information-Presentations PE
Tag Rugby
Circuits/Dance
Hockey
Gymnastics
Basketball/Netball
Athletics
Tennis
Kwik Cricket
Dance
Rounders
Orienteering RE
Belonging - Christianity
Believing - Christianity
Behaving - Christianity
Art
Drawing/Sketching
Painting
Print
Digital Media
Sculpture
Textiles
Inspiration from the Greats DT
Food and Micro-organisms
Textiles - Slippers
Electrical/Construction – Moving Vehicles
MUSIC
Perform
Transcribe
Compose
FRENCH
All About Me & My Town
Travel
Hobbies and Sports
‘Tell Me A Story’
Profile of Learning Project
PSHE
New Beginnings
Getting On & Falling Out
Say No to Bullying
Going for Goals
Good to Be Me
Relationships
Changes
VISITS/ENRICHMENT
Wildmoor Heath Reserve
Supermarket
Church
Library
Residential/Activity Wk

8. End of Year Expectations
READING
I am familiar with and can talk about a wide range of books and
text types. I can discuss the features of these types.
I can read books that are structured in different ways.
I can recognise texts that contain features from more than one text type.
I can evaluate how effectively texts are structured and presented.
I can read non-fiction texts to help with my learning.
I read accurately and check that I understand.
I can recommend books to others and give reasons for my recommendation.
I can identify themes in texts.
I can read between the lines and infer what is meant.
I can discuss the language choices of an author

9. End of Year Expectations
WRITING
I can identify the audience and purpose of the writing.
I can choose the appropriate form and register for the audience and purpose of the writing.
I use grammatical structures and features and choose vocabulary appropriate to the audience, purpose and degree of formality to make meaning clear and create effect.
I use a range of sentence starters to create specific effects.
I can use developed noun phrases to add detail to sentences.
I use the passive voice to present information with a different emphasis.
I use commas to mark phrases and clauses.
I can sustain and develop ideas logically in narrative and non-narrative writing.
I can use character, dialogue and action to advance events in narrative writing.
I can summarise a text, conveying key information in writing.
I can use the full range of punctuation marks.

10. End of Year Expectations
MATHS Number, place value, approximation and estimation/rounding • I can read, write, order and compare numbers up to10,000,000. • I can determine the value of each digit in numbers up to 10,000,000. • I can round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy. • I can use negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals across zero. • I can solve number problems and practical problems with the above.

11. End of Year Expectations
Children are also expected to solve problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Interpret and solve problems involving ratio
Understand and calculate fractions, decimals and percentages
Use algebra and simple formula
Read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation of up to 3 decimal places.
Draw and interpret a variety of graphs and charts including pie charts.

12. Spellings

13. How parents can support…
Talk about what they are learning. Question them ‘How do you know…?’
Support homework, BUT don’t do it for them.
Practise of times tables, including both the multiplication and division facts.
Reading at home; Ask questions about the text and characters.
Spellings practise (see year 5 and 6 curriculum list).
Take any opportunity to make links between real life and maths, such as calculating with time, interpreting timetables, reading scales etc.

14. PE Kits Our normal physical education days are Wednesday and Thursday.
Please send in PE kits every Monday and take home by Friday each week.

15. Pencil Cases
The school have provided each child with a pencil case and ruler. There are colouring pencils and protractors available in class.
We politely request that parents provide their child with writing pencils, a glue stick and a rubber.

16. Home Learning
Homework will consist of a maths activity, an English activity and spellings each week.
Every child is expected to read at least four times a week and get it signed by an adult
Homework will go out on a Friday and is expected back by a Thursday.
Spellings will be tested on a Friday.

17. Online safety
New technologies have become integral to the lives of children and young people in today’s society, both within schools and in their lives outside school and we want to keep our children safe. We will does this by:
It is woven into our curriculum and we have an extra focus on E-Safety at the time of national E-Safety week in February.
Every member of staff, parent and child will be asked to sign an Acceptable Use Policy. This is to ensure:
• That young people will be responsible users and stay safe while using the internet and other communications technologies for educational, personal and recreational use.
• That school ICT systems and users are protected from accidental or deliberate misuse that could put the security of the systems and users at risk.
• That parents and carers are aware of the importance of e-safety and are involved in the education and guidance of young people with regard to their on-line behaviour.
We will be holding an e-safety information session this year.
- If you have any questions on how to keep your child safe please ask.

18. Trips
There is planned to be one trip or visitor per half term with the main activity being the Activity Week in July, which will be a 4 night residential for those who have paid their deposit. Payment cards and a letter will be sent this week.
We will keeps costs to a minimum (if any) due to the expense involved in the residential trip.

19. Performances and Assemblies
Year 6 will be performing in a shared production with Year 5 in the summer term.
There will be a class assembly.
There is a Harvest Festival assembly.
There will also be a leaver’s assembly in last week of the year.

20. Next week you will receive a letter inviting you to join Seesaw.
This is an app which is an online learning journal for your child.
Teachers will be posting photos, videos and work your child has created.
Family members can like and comment on items, allowing you to engage with your child’s learning.
It will give you a portal into your child’s life at school.
This is another excellent way we are communicating with families about the learning and progress your child is making, so we ask that everyone signs up to this.

21. Communication
We will communicate with you using the following methods;
Weekly bulletin
Monthly newsletter
Website
Twitter
SeeSaw
And we will be on the playground after school everyday. Alternatively, please feel to send in a note with your child.